Chinese Officials Investigating Accusations of Toxic Metal Dumping by Two Apple Suppliers. Planet Money Makes A T-Shirt. Why A T-Shirt? We wanted to see the hidden world behind clothes sold in this country, so we decided to make a T-shirt. We wanted to make an ordinary shirt like the vast majority of the shirts sold in this country — not organic cotton, not hand-sewn in the United States. To figure out how many shirts to make, and to raise money to pay for them, we turned to Kickstarter.
Our goal was to sell 2,000 shirts. In the end, we sold 25,000. (Thanks again to everyone who ordered a shirt. Why A Squirrel? The design on the shirt, a squirrel hoisting a martini glass, is a visual pun: a reference to the phrase “animal spirits” made famous by the economist John Maynard Keynes. As Planet Money’s David Kestenbaum put it recently: “Keynes’ idea was that there’s more to the markets than just numbers; there are people and emotions making decisions. 10 Reporters, 3 Continents, 1 Archipelago We flew drones over Mississippi. More T-Shirt Stories! For more, subscribe to the Planet Money podcast. Credits. Globalization I - The Upside: Crash Course World History #41. The Shipbreakers - 60 Minutes. The Electronic Wasteland - 60 Minutes. The Globalization Website - Issues. GLOBALIZATION ISSUES (back to list of issues) 1. What is globalization ? Globalization broadly refers to the expansion of global linkages, the organization of social life on a global scale, and the growth of a global consciousness, hence to the consolidation of world society.
Such an ecumenical definition captures much of what the term commonly means, but its meaning is disputed. The following definitions represent currently influential views: "[T]he inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before-in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before . . . . the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world " (T.L.
Competing Conceptions of Globalization Economist Schools Brief Globalisation Globalization as the End and the Beginning of History Globalization: A World-Systems Perspective G.B. No Globalization. Thomas L. Friedman Reporting: Accent Neutralization. Commanding Heights: Home | on PBS. Thomas Friedman's Three Eras of Globalization. The Debate Over Globalization. Teaching Tools. Lesson1.